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All, then, that is present in the sense realm as Idea comes
from the Supreme. But what is not present as Idea, does not. Thus
of things conflicting with nature, none is There: the inartistic
is not contained in the arts; lameness is not in the seed; for a
lame leg is either inborn through some thwarting of the
Reason-principle or is a marring of the achieved form by
accident. To that Intellectual Kosmos belong qualities, accordant
with Nature, and quantities; number and mass; origins and
conditions; all actions and experiences not against nature;
movement and repose, both the universals and the particulars: but
There time is replaced by eternity and space by its intellectual
equivalent, mutual inclusiveness.
In that Intellectual Kosmos, where all is one total, every entity
that can be singled out is an intellective essence and a
participant in life: thus, identity and difference, movement and
rest with the object resting or moving, essence and quality, all
have essential existence. For every real being must be in
actuality not merely in potentiality and therefore the nature of
each essence is inherent in it.
This suggests the question whether the Intellectual Kosmos
contains the forms only of the things of sense or of other
existents as well. But first we will consider how it stands with
artistic creations: there is no question of an ideal archetype of
evil: the evil of this world is begotten of need, privation,
deficiency, and is a condition peculiar to Matter distressed and
to what has come into likeness with Matter.
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